The publication of Imperial Edicts Inst Tune for the extermination of foreigners is one indisputable proof that the Chinese Government, and not any Boxer rabble, wus responsible for the atrocities that were committed. The authorities are now trying to exculpate themselves from the infamy of the Boxer barbarities by ordering the recall of all edicts issued between certain dates, as false and unofficial. That diplomatic device will never wipe out the dishonour or atone for the crime of the events that roused the revulsion of the civilised world. Kriige boasted that he would stagger humanity," but the Buers never approached the Boxers in their conceptions of cruelty and cold-blooded massacre.
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